Kathleen Schmitt Kline
Interviewee | Collection Sort descending | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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William Casper | People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish |
Paul Muche interviews Bill Casper about his family history with fishing and sturgeon spearing, as well as his starting Sturgeon for Tomorrow, a sturgeon conservation organization. |
Paul Muche | Fond du Lac, WI | University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Oshkosh Public Museum | |
Irene L. Halfmann | People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish |
Irene Halfmann and her husband Greg Halfmann of Malone, Wisconsin discuss their experiences sturgeon fishing. Bill Casper interviews them about Irene’s big catches of 1952 and 1979, methods of cooking sturgeon, how to prevent shanties from blowing around the lake, and the painting of their manual ice saw as art for their 50th wedding anniversary. |
Bill Casper | Malone, WI | University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Oshkosh Public Museum | |
Jerry Neumueller | People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish |
Jerry Neumueller talks about his experiences with sturgeon spearing and shares some of his knowledge about the sport. He explains how to find a spot, cutting holes, moving shanties, using decoys, and throwing the spear straight. He also talks about how things have changed over the years. |
Dick Ristow | Oshkosh, WI | University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Oshkosh Public Museum | |
Ann Marie Wendt Ziemer | People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish |
Ann Marie Wendt Ziemer talks about her experiences with sturgeon spearing on Lake Winnebago. She recalls experiences from her childhood and explains why she wants her children to have similar experiences. She works at Wendt's on the Lake, and talks about some of the changes that she has seen over the years. |
Dick Ristow | Lake Winnebago, WI | University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Oshkosh Public Museum | |
William Casper | People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish |
Kathleen Schmitt Kline interviews Bill Casper about memorabilia, books, track records and other associated paperwork associated with Sturgeon for Tomorrow. |
Kathleen Schmitt Kline | Unknown | University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Oshkosh Public Museum | |
Reuben Hoelzel | People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish |
Eugene Herubin interviews Reuben Hoelzel about his history with sturgeon spearing. Having been born in 1916, Hoelzel remembers when sturgeon spearing was an economic necessity and meals with sturgeon were like feasts. He discusses passing on the tradition to his children, how to clean and cook sturgeon, and decoy painting. |
Eugene Herubin | Appleton, WI | University of Wisconsin Board of Regents | |
Donald Petersen, Sr. | People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish |
Interviewed by Dick Koerner, Donald Petersen, Sr. (also known as Old Timer or O.T.) discusses his experiences with sturgeon spearing. He talks about changes in the sport, his spearing history, and preferences for recipes, spearing locations, and spears. |
Dick Koerner | Neenah, WI | University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Oshkosh Public Museum | |
Mike Will | People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish |
Mike Will was born in 1951 and started sturgeon fishing at the age of 14. He used primarily set lines to catch sturgeon although he has participated in approximately 9 spearing seasons. He enjoys caviar, but does not make it himself. Mike believes that the sturgeon are getting bigger, and he likes the system they have in place now. Most people from his area sell the sturgeon, rather than eat it themselves. |
Ronald M. Bruch, Kathleen Schmitt Kline | Lake Winnebago, WI | University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Oshkosh Public Museum | |
Russell Collar | People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish |
Russell Collar describes his experiences fishing for sturgeon using snag lines. He explains his “closest call with a warden”, how to tie sturgeon, when his father was pulled in, and what happened to his albino sturgeon. He also describes his earliest memory of sturgeon fishing, and how he thinks the river has changed. |
Ronald M. Bruch, Kathleen Schmitt Kline | Shiocton, WI | University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Oshkosh Public Museum | |
Wayne Hoelzel | People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish |
Dick Koerner interviews Wayne Hoelzel about his experiences sturgeon spearing. He tells tales of winter storms during spearing season and his favorite memories spearing. |
Dick Koerner | Menasha, WI | University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Oshkosh Public Museum |